UKRAINE - People are deceived by the U.S. / EU - Nazis and fascists in control of government, formed by US and EU. - In this blog, I will provide the information that the Western press is not willing to give. The purpose is to open the eyes of the Norwegian, European and Ukrainian people about what actually happens in Ukraine, and who’s behind. Some text is mine, but also from friends or I borrow/ bring in from other media

lørdag 15. april 2017

Moscow calls for transparent investigation of Syria chemical incident

Russia’s top diplomat slams attempts to block the proposals by Russia
and Iran to establish an independent commission for the investigation

Turkish medics check a victim of alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syrian city of Idlib, at a hospital in Reyhanli, Turkey

MOSCOW, April 14. /TASS/. Moscow is opposed to the
remote work of experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in Syria, and an investigation into the April 4
incident in the city of Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province, should be
transparent, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.

"Another strange thing about this story. The US began demanding full
access not only to al-Shayrat airfield (Homs province - TASS) but to
other facilities as well, for some reason," he noted. "Yesterday (on
April 13) at the meeting of the OPCW Executive Council, the
organization’s senior officials began to say, "No, we should only
investigate the April 4 incident in Idlib, there is no need to go to the
airfield." I cannot understand why, the more so since the US initially
demanded to examine this airfield, and the Syrian government is ready to
accept such an inspection."

"Such inconsistencies make us confident that there is something shady
about the whole affair," Lavrov went on to say. "When we say that the
scene of the incident should be visited, we are told that the samples
had already been taken. Taken by whom? When?"

According to the minister, when the previous incidents involving
toxic substances in the areas controlled by militants were investigated,
"we were told that some laboratory has investigated the relevant
samples, but the laboratory wasn’t certified by the OPCW."

"All these factors combined convince us that it is necessary to
support the proposal by Russia and Iran that the OPCW should conduct the
investigation, but with the participation of an independent group of
experts, an additional group of experts from regional countries, Russia,
the United States and Europe," Lavrov stressed. "If our counterparts in
the US are so convinced that their version is the only correct one,
they have nothing to fear."

"The only argument that is put forward - they accuse us of not
trusting the OPCW," Russia’s top diplomat pointed out. "They say that
the Investigative Mechanism was endorsed by the UN Security Council.
That’s true, it is put down in writing that the UN Security Council
supports the creation of this mechanism and expects it to do its work in
good faith."

"We put our signatures on this. But did not put our signatures on the
fact that the mechanism will work remotely and will not send experts to
the scene of incidents and will keep silent about the sampling
methods," Lavrov emphasized. "Nor did we put our signatures on the fact
that the Mechanism should be led by two British nationals. I hope that
no one will be offended at our desire to make sure that the
investigation of this headline-making incident is transparent so that no
one has doubts that someone is trying to conceal something."

"The attempts to block the proposals by Russia and Iran to establish
an independent commission for an unbiased and objective investigation
suggest only that those who are taking such attempts have unclean
conscience," the foreign minister said.

"Evidences are multiplying that this was an orchestrated event, I
mean the incident with the use of chemical weapons in the province of
Idlib," Lavrov said.

"The publications that are emerging now, including in the United
States and Great Britain, which reflect the opinion of professional
experts, suggest that there are too many discrepancies in the version,
which was used to try to justify the aggressive action on April 7 and
for which an attempt was made to push it through in the UN Security
Council resolution two days ago," the Russian foreign minister said.

"We insisted on convening a special session of the Executive Council
of the OPCW [Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons] and a
very heated discussion took place yesterday," Lavrov said.During this discussion, "Western colleagues clearly tried to prevent
any steps that could help establish the truth about what had happened,"
the Russian foreign minister said.

According to data of the Russian Defense Ministry, Syrian warplanes
delivered an air strike on April 4 that hit workshops where terrorists
were producing munitions with chemical agents supplied to Iraq and used
in Aleppo.However, Washington concluded that Damascus had used chemical
weapons. As a result, the US military fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles
on the military aerodrome in the province of Homs, from which, as
Washington believed, a chemical attack had allegedly started. The
missile strike killed 10 people.